Camp Starts For Real Tonight

With news now officially circulating that the NFLPA will approve the new CBA, it appears all these hundreds upon hundreds of new team signings will finally be able to practice with their new teams. So what is worth following in Bourbonnais as the Bears start training camp for real.

#1 'YOUR BOY' ROY WILLIAMS

Based on Mike Martz predicting 70-80 catches and a million yards for Roy, we can all assume he'll be lined up as the top receiver on the phantom depth chart. Monitoring his chemistry with Cutler and his impact on Hester, Knox and Bennett will be keeping the Twitter accounts of Biggs, Jensen and the ESPN Chicago boys turned up to eleven.

#2 THE OFFENSIVE LINE: WHO IS WHERE AND WHEN

Assuming Chris Spencer steps into the middle of the line, sliding Garza back to right guard, the Bears will certainly spend the next few days experimenting with different combinations across the line. (My bet is they'll settle in Webb at LT and Carimi at RT in short order.) I will not be surprised, however, if a player like Lance Louis bounces Chris Williams out of a job.

#3 WHO LINES UP OPPOSITE PEANUT?

Bowman? Jennings? Graham? The Bears do not have an established starter to line up opposite Charles Tillman. They'll need one soon. (Side note: How much are we going to all miss Peanut when he decides to move on? He's quickly becoming an all-time Bear.)

#4 THE RECLAMATION PROJECTS

Is there any chance Vernon Gholston or Amobi Okoye can fulfill the promise of their lofty draft-day expectations? Can Rod Marinelli insert them into the rotation regularly and being to pull from them what the Bears seem to have begun pulling from Henry Melton and Corey Wootton?

#1 RW should do pretty well in providing that big bodied "go up & get it guy" for Cutler as well as a huge endzone target.

#2 Webb, Creampuff, Garza, Luis, Carimi

#3 No clue as to who might win that spot opposite Peanut. Will they give Graham a chance to compete this year? I have been a fan of Tillman since his rookie year with us. However, I'm not sure how much I will miss him getting burned AT LEAST once a game, resulting in huge plays or missing routine tackles for touchdowns while trying to strip the ball (As he receives so much praise for). When its time, let him go. Just Sayin'

#4 Hopefully we can see a resurgence from those guys. I'd still like to think they will have to earn it. I'm a big Melton fan after the type of play he demonstrated in limited action last season.

#5 Taylor Mays just hit the fuckin' market boys! & I want 'em! That is one hard hittin' sonofabitch.

Taylor Mays fucking blows. He is Daniel Manning with a higher pricetag minus the kick return skills. And whats with shitting all over peanut? Give the man his due. He's been our best corner for a decade

Stache, I'm pretty sure I stated that I have been a fan of his over the last decade. Just because I'm a fan of his doesn't mean that it doesn't piss me off when he gets torched AT LEAST ONCE A GAME. Tell me I'm wrong & we can agree that each other are wrong.

Everyone gets a hard-on when he racks up another fumble. Including me. (I'm rockin a semi right now just thinking about it haha)
But the number of routine tackles that are missed going after those strips definitely shrivels that excitement for me.

I don't think pointing out those opinions really constitutes as "Shitting all over Peanut" Hahaha

You are wrong...Getting burned once a game? Do you watch the games? He rarely gets burned. I'd say a few times per year, not once a game. If he got burned once a game, he would be a shitty corner and he's probably be out of the league by now. You spread poop on the peanut

Agreed with everyone on Mays. We don't need another hard hitter that is a liability in coverage, or misses tackles.

I'm watching the USC highlight vid you posted, and what strikes me is how often he relies on the shoulder/chest ram tackle... that and arm tackles. That shit won't get it done in the NFL -- it's great for highlight reels, but when the receiver is a little faster or a little more elusive what you get is a massive burn instead of a big hit. We don't need that.

I hear you, but I'd LOVE to have that kid laying mofo's out back there. (I miss Mike Brown). Harris was serviceable last year. He is a great hitter but I think he's slow and not very great against the deep ball either. There are reasons why we traded him away 3 yrs or so ago. Ya know?

I think he has a lot of potential. Manning wasn't so good in coverage until last year. It can take time for young kids to sharpen their mechanics but I think Mays will be a hell of a player in this league.

Football :
#2 - Chris Williams should kick World Wide Webb to the curb.

Reality ? 15 trillion dollar debt. Forget about football for a month (fantasy leagues aside, and there's still two spots available in DBB II see last thread, as well as this shit cos I just posted it b4 Jeff posted this). But world apocalypse is imminent ... so STFU!

{Collective groan: "Not again Irish!}

STFU!

Men, you were talking about your little kids today. Little tikes, little nippers. Do you love them? Do you really love them? Do you want a country for them to grow up in - the country you grew up thinking was free? Well it's not free and the Fed owns your ass hook line and sinker, it owns the forests and national parks and it owns your very own fucking birth certificates - you were all put up as collateral in a loan made in 1933 from the 'Fed' to the government to keep it solvent and people had better wake up really quickly and get with it.

Viva La Revolucion!

Fkn spread the word boys!! I'm backed up with Fox news jism mangs! No choice, BBC is boring. But FOX – are you for real?? 24 hours of DEBT!DEBT!DEBT! Obama’s a cunny! We owe 15 gazillion dollars because Obama's a baaad man! And nobody, NOBODY mentions why. Even Ron Paul – who has hounded Bernanke and Geithner before him – always stops just short of saying what he wants to scream from the rooftops … because he remembers what happened to JFK. He's afraid.That jism-guzzler Sean Hannity actually had the cajones today to say that We/You/The People were 15 trillion in debt because of medic-aid-care-whatever ... @#%^#@%$%$ Hot jiminy cricket ! He says it like he actually believes it!! Is he a genius plant? Not with that hair methinks! What a Johnny!

And speaking of hair - there's Trump saying he "doesn't want to be president, but he’ll have to step in unless the economy improves” … when it can’t improve ...ever ...not under the Federal reserve system.

Fifteen trillion. It's got nothing to do with the fact that every dollar bill printed comes with a wodge-load of interest attached to it - nothing whatsoever - interest that has to be paid off every year by printing more money that has MORE fucking interest on it and THEN IT GETS HANDED STRAIGHT BACK TO THE ‘FEDERAL’ RESERVE. A bunch of sheister banks controlled by Evelyn De Rothschild ! The satanic spawn that have been there since the dawn of banking!! CHRIST! It's like a bad trip! And nobody says a word!! The biggest fattest smelliest elephant that ever sat in a room, literally firing crap out of its anus like a muck-spreader!! The interest to the Fed is continually compounded ! Fifteen trillion will be nothing in a few years! People will be saying “Ya remember when the debt was only FIFTEEN trillion?”

People ... HEELLLLLL-OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Please, is there a very wealthy person out there who gets this? Is there not one wealthy celebrity with a spare few million who could pay for ads to be made and then shown on TV in between American Gladiators and Survivor? A nice little Sesame Street thing that explains where money comes from and how the Rothschilds are bumming you all daily from England! Have you SEEN David de Rothschild - the Jesus look-a-like ?? How scary is he? Parading the planet as this fkn eco-warrior telling us to recycle our plastic and turn off our lights !!! WTF !! Heir to half the planet's fucking wealth!! HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS made off your misery and the rape of the planet and he's acting like the son of God !! And it's against the U.S. constitution! What's the point of having a constitution then? Why bother?

NO! DAMMIT !! Where are the wealthy who see the scam ?? Help your brothers and sisters and children and grandchildren! Help them all!! Educate your children, educate yourselves take back your currency and ask yourselves why the most powerful nation the world has ever known is fifteen trillion dollars in debt. Tom Cruise - you sir ! You talk about wanting to help people?! Help them !! Pay for a ninety second ad just once!! It would be headline news except that it wouldn't be headline news because you-know-who has a finger in every pie of every news station and newspaper the world over or their finger up the asses of those who do, because you-know-who isn't on any of the rich-lists topped by paupers like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. He’s practically the invisible man to a world full of people that have too much shit to contend with to care who's running the world .... the resat are ignoramuses he helped dumb down! But we’re watching you …. Mr. Evelyn De Rothschild … we’re watching you and all of your satanic spawn ...we're watching, and you haven't RF-chipped us yet. No serenity until you burn in the lake of fire where you belong.

“If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless”
- Thomas Jefferson

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
-Henry Ford

"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States" — Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR)

"We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it". — Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

"We are completely dependant on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.... It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon." — Robert H. Hamphill, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank

"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world--no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." — President Woodrow Wilson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The
issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson

"To expose a 15 Trillion dollar rip-off of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000
largest corporations over the last 100 years will be a tall order of business." — Buckminster Fuller

"Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation...but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job." — Robert A. Heinlein

"...the increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve banks from 143 million dollars in 1913 to 45 billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [federal reserve] banks." — Eustace Mullins

Did you ever watch Gladiator Irish? The mob is too busy being entertained while the Caesar's destroy the country. Look around, there aren't any Maximus's left. China ain't gonna be too happy when we can't pay them back.

Irish, were I here earlier, I would congratulate/cajole you on a wildly entertaining, very "crazy person" rant. Alas, I tend to agree with most of what you have to say (working in the financial services training industry)... Unfortunately, I worry that this again appeals to the typical American ideal of "it's everyone else's fault. Someone fix it for me." line of thinking. I realise that you're not party to this, but it seems like pandering to the lowest common denominator.

We Americans are pussies. Let’s be honest. The entire financial crisis (though based on a disturbing dependence on the Fed) stems from idiots who happily said “I’d love that $350,000 home loan. I don’t care that I make $15,000 a year tending bar at Applebee’s.”

The dependence on the Fed stems from ignorance. Granted. But more than anything, it speaks to a lack of personal responsibility on each of our parts. Deal with your own shit. The government can, and will, fuck you. “But it’s Obama’s fault” says the right. “But Bush got us here” says the left. “But it’s your dependence on an organization completely outside the confines of American law” says the outside observer.

Final conclusion – stop fucking blaming others. We’re all getting fucked. It’s whether you bend over and take it like Ned Beatty, or fight your way out like you’re in an episode of Oz, that speaks to you true character – regardless of nationality. Figure your own shit out.

So. In conclusion… I’m just home from winning a fucking USSSA division championship in slow fat guy softball. I’m feeling my oats… Ignore everything I just said. Except the part where I said “I’m fully on board with Barber getting short yardage first downs, and RW making Cutler look less stupid.”

Well put Beavo. It has been said that people get the governments they deserve, but I never bought that. We should look out for each other, because those nobs in Congress and the senate aren't looking out for you. They don't give a damn it seems ....

So yes, Irish, the curtain has risen on Act I. The total failure of the US government to even begin to fix anything, followed by (good gracious friggin' GOD it's about time!) a US credit rating downgrade by a major ratings firm. Weiss Ratings [no affiliation] downgraded the US to a C-, barely about "junk" bond status some time back. This will likely, in their eyes, put US Treasuries firmly in the junk category

I know you hate the banks, Irish, and with good reason. But their come-uppance is nigh, at least the commercial banks not part of the inner circle of the cabal (Fed Reserve banks are of course immune). Short them.

I say leave Taylor Mays on the scrap heap. He's a looks like Tarzan plays like Jane guy. There was a whole lot of scouts that said he would have a hard time transitioning to the pros. If he can't turn his hips his hitting ain't gonna do nothin unless the guy just runs straight at him. One little juke and it's all over. I think manning was better than Mays. You didn't see Pete Carroll making a play to get him. He knew his weakness, and was smart enough to know he was a bad gamble. Thats one I say stays on the scrap heap.

You guys are right, looks like a chump. No amount of coaching or practice can improve someone's mechanics like "hip turning skills or backpedaling".

6'3 - 230 lbs.
40-Yard Dash 4.43
Bench press 24
Vertical jump 41.0
Mays possesses one of the most distinguished resumes of any prospect, regardless of position, in this year's draft. He was the PAC-10 Co-freshman of the year in 2006 when he registered 62 tackles and 6 interceptions. He followed his outstanding freshman campaign with a 65 tackle, 1 interception and 1 forced fumble season in 2007.Mays was voted to the Sporting News Magazine's first Team All American after the season; had a solid 53 tackle year in 2008. For his action, AP named him to their first team All-American squad. He also was a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, which is given to the nation's best defensive back. The 6-foot-3 safety is one of the best pure athletes in this draft, blessed with uncanny athleticism and agility. Solidly built with raw power, he possesses incredible range and even better coverage awareness. Shows the acceleration and sheer speed to assist cornerbacks over the top. Has top notch closing burst and pursuit speed to rundown ballcarriers and stay with WRs downfield. On the downside, he is not the most punishing hitter. Can be overaggressive and tends to miss some tackles in space. He is a low, drag-down tackler. Will stop moving his feet and lunge at the ballcarrier. Has not shown the hip turning skill many scouts covet and his backpedaling needs more work. Lacks the fluidity to move on a dime. Can be fooled by play action and double pup fakes, which allows receivers to get behind him.

Look guys, if we can get him cheap we need to make this pick up, plain and simple. Throw him in at fucking rover on 1st and 2nd downs… or just make him an in-box SS on run downs for christ sake…. The dude is fucking 6’3” 230 and runs a 4.4!!!! And I can’t even believe that said he’s not a punishing hitter, that is just silly.

Other than the fact that Mays got drafted in the 2nd round, I don't
know squat about this Mays kid everyone keeps talking about. My gut tells me that he ain't worth squat if the Niners emailed every team for a possible trade. Why would a team that had several of their best players hightail it outta town want to trade a salvageable player that could help them? If the Bears can get him on the practice squad for Olsens ball bag he left in his locker then maybe baby. Otherwise, lets hope the Cheese pick him up.

In last year's Redskins game, I though McNabb looked lost at times. What a terrible game that was, with Cutler throwing it away.

At first I chalked up McNabb to just not being a Shanny & Son kinda guy, but I don't think he will have an Indian Summer in his career, esp. with Percy Harvin, Iglasias and Shabba as his wideouts.

Stafford has to prove it. I haven't written the kid off, but he's WAY down my FF list and I think the Lions will suck yet again.

No - the NFC North comes down to Cutler vs. Rodgers. And frankly, Cutler has a ways to go to be in Rodgers class. But he looks ready to shut the Jeff George nags down this year, so let's hope Tice can keep him upright.

Can the line play even middle of the pack football consistently all year? If yes, we have a legit shot at the title... if it's just last 3 years redux, we're fucked... and so is cutty and various necessary body parts.

I honestly think we've gotten better everywhere else on the field or are just as good… AS LONG AS we have some more injury luck at key spots. Mostly Lach and Briggsy. I think we’d be able to at least not implode if we lost peanut (god forbid), and we have enough safeties now to at least be able to play the game, IF we pick up Mays. Better/deeper at TE, RB, DL, and WR.

Holy shit… did you see how positive that post was? No, I was not abducted by aliens boys, just getting little excited for the season!

Even though the lockout wiped out the entire offseason program, Marinelli is confident that the defense won’t take long to revert to the unit that ranked second in rushing yards allowed, third in opponent passer rating and sixth in third down efficiency last season.
The Bears gave up a lot of passing yards last season, but I think the passer rating and points allowed are more important. The D played great in the Championship Game once they figured out every play was at Jennings. The almighty Rodgers had a 55 QB rating in the game.
I think Clay Matthews is the next Shawn Merriman. Unless he finds a new undetectable steroid, his career will be nothing after this year, if he doesn't get caught this year.

I was very nervous about these various moves. But looking at what's going on in the NFC North with Detroit and GB I like the bold approach. For so long in Chicago it seemed we made one move and hoped that would fix everything. But within the last 3 years this team has made many, identity changing, important, and risky moves. I like it, they are trying to win. A far cry from the Wanny days when the Bears reminded me of the Cubs where they were content to sell out the stadium but not field a contender. We have that now and I love it when analysts are surprised when we win and make it to the NFC championship when most didn't even have us in the playoffs. I love this team and am proud to be a fan. Bear Down!!

I didn't say Bennett because I believe that Bennett was such a force in the slot last year, that he cemented himself as the slot guy this year, unless he shows up out of shape.

I think Lovie handed three ring punch hole sheets with a divider tab that said "I-formation" to Martz, and TOLD Martz "Put these plays back in the damn book" and that we will be seeing the return of fullback based football in Soldier Field.

When I go up to camp, the main thing I will be looking for is what the use of the FB is.

More I and offset I, and less single back, will mean less Bennett on 1st down at least - so the 1 and 2 will be competitive. I expect a lot of Roy and Knox and Hurd to rotate at 2. Cotchery would make a nice rounded out mix there.

I think Cutler will have lobbied, and rightly so, for Hester to be nothing more than a diversion guy. Long side of the field he may line up just to pull the safeties back, and threaten the long ball, but simply not in the rotation very often and headed back to concentrate on kick and PT.

i agree on Hester but i think Cotchery ripped his groin and if i'm not mistaken had to have surgery on it. I see that as a lingering injury which sucks for him. Groins don't go away.

I wish they used Hester better but they don't.
Williams is going to kill it this year. The confidence is key, if he has it he will get over 1,000 yards and if he doesn't we'll get 700. Martz and Lovie are pumping him up because they know it all about the mental for our boy Roy.

GP - i am super bears homer but i also know football and have played as well as coached and the guys that i am most excited about this year are

Okoye - put up better than AA numbers in Houston in a system not designed for him. Drafted as a man child but his skills will be maximized with proper coaching. Marcus Harrison is gone.

Williams - big target whose mental state controls his physical actions like a puppet does a puppermaster. If he has confidence and success early on with Cutler there will be fireworks like we haven't seen in Chicago in a while. Marcus Robinson type shit.

Wootton - the farther he gets away from that college knee injury the better. This offseason would have been amazing for him working with pro trainers to completely rehab and strengthen the knee.

Forte/Barber - that combo is going to work for us this year. Barber is finally healthy after TEARING his quad, a brutal injury that he felt he had to play through or else lose his job...and he was right. We'll see visions of old Barber this year and his presence on the goal line with Spencer, Garza, Carimi and Spaeth firing out on the right side should make for some redzone success.

Cutler - I think his mind is right, he's in shape and Martz will put him in more positions to succeed this year than last. Big targets and Jay's fucking cannon are good combo.

Martz - i put Martz in here because people forget that this is his contract year as well. Martz's coaching career is on the line so look for balance and RESULTS early instead of blind reliance on the 1999-2003 Rams model offense. He is going to use the shit out of Forte this year and he will be rewarded with a contract extension.

Great post. Okoye had about 44 tackles and 4 sacks in 2010. If the Texans didn't switch to a 3-4, he'd still be there. He's only like 24, and he took less money to work with Marinelli, which makes me like him that much more.

Game? Game? Did you say game? Take the time to look at his stats. The guy has had one decent year out of 7 and averages 433 yards and 2 Td's a season. LOLOL Man if you arent writing crazy shit you are thinking crazy shit. GO BEARS.......................lolololol

Damn people are gonna pay out 28-1 on the Bears now and 7-1 on the fudge. I'll be in Reno at the end of this month for the Best of the West Rib Cook-off so you konw I'll be laying a benjamin on the Bears! Those odds are beautiful! I hope the locker room still revels in the underdog role.

And having visited both nations for prolonged periods I would say Ireland. Galway is a pretty sick little town and Dublin is world famous for a reason.

Galway rocks! Yeah, I'd definitely live in Galway if I had to live there again. Just for the Galway race festival alone. But the craic, the pubs, the music - you're withing striking distance of a lot of beautiful places. Kerry is beautiful and has great people too. I named one of my daughters after Kerry.

Galway is the tits Irish! Great craic. Music, food, people are chill, and right by the water. Checking out the Inishmoore people and their gaelic ways is a trip. I felt like I was in Utah watching the Mormons. County Kerry is a buetiful place.

Best thing about Galways is it's a college town so you get a great nightlife and music scene along with the cutest chicks I saw while in Ireland. That being said... there arent a lot of cute chicks in Ireland. I think all the hot chicks dies in the famine or something. lol

Hell yea Sac, but I tend to differ on the cute chick front. There were tons in Dublin when I lived there. The most buetiful eyes (and brains) I've ever seen. They play that prude religious game at first, but if you break that layer, you're in for a good time. My guy roomates and I made a bet who could bang the most Irish girls in a 6th month span. We each put up 250 euros. I crushed them, but did take on a close to 6 foot red head with a peach fuzz hair lip to pad my stats and ensure victory.

“It felt good. It was fun,” Williams said. “This is the best offense I’ve ever been in, ever been a part of. This is real football here, a lot of conversions, a lot of reading defenses. This is what the NFL is all about.”

"Au Revoir: Chris Spencer really struggled in 2010. After showing potential in pass pro in 2009 he took a step back last season and now the Seahawks have to decide if that was a blip or a sign of his true abilities."

So Bears v Raiders tickets are on sale at Stub Hub. If you're in Cali and want to join us let me know. I'll try and find a section with enough seats available together. I have a group of about 10 right now. Fres and company?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2225159
Most those guys are lawyers and doctors etc. Raiders tix are actually more than the Niners tix. I went to that Niners Bears game where Cutler just gave the game away at the end. I got into it with more than one Niner far throught the game and saw more fights there than I've seen at any game in Oakland.

Yo Sac, the tix are already on sale? damn. I may be in on that even though I'm a little strapped 4 cash right now. When are u going to buy them? I live in L.A. and this may be the closest the Bears come (I checked out the S.D. preseason game last year).

Funny Raider story (when they were in L.A.)

My first football game was the Bears against the Raiders at the Colosseum. Now, any one that knows L.A. knows that the area around the Collosium is GHETTO. I was probably about 12 or so, and we were looking for parking around the neighborhood, and I literally saw 4 big ass dudes MOVE A CAR so that they could park there. I was like "holy shit, what the hell did I get myself into".

To make things worse, my step-dad is a white-boy Bronco fan who wore his Bronco hat, and my sister back in the day was smoking hot, not to mention I wore my Bears gear, so I was prepared to die that.

Miraculously, no one fucked with us. Luckily, Bears fans travel well, and the Raiders don't hate us. However, there were more than a few fights around us, but it was mostly among themselves lol

i spit Coke out of my nose the other day reading a seamingly innocent piece on David Garrard's back injury. The first response to the article indicated that Garrard threw his back out lugging around his huge black penis.

It was so unexpected that i couldn't stop laughing for a couple of minutes.

I can't believe this shit. Olin signed with the Saints for 2-3 mil. WTF?

Olin is perhaps the biggest casualty of the lockout. When the Bears told him 4mil/1yr take it or leave it, he thought that it was a fuck you ultimatum, when in reality that's what every team was doing due to the crazy frenzy. Angelo said that when he inquired about Spencer in the morning awaiting Kruetz's decision that by the afternoon his price already went up, so he couldn't just sit around while Olin mulled over his existential crisis.

Nnamdi himself said that teams asked him if he was interested in them, and Nnambdi replied "Give me a little while to think about it" and you know what teams told him? "Sorry, we don't got five minutes, we need to know now"

Olin, you could have played for 2mil more and retired with the team you gave your hear to for 13 years!

Even other fans know Angelo is a dumb-ass, and thta we down-graded our center when we were supposed to be upgrading the line.

A comment from a reader on the Trib :

Aints_No_More at 6:21 AM August 6, 2011

Saints fan here ... We needed an experienced center because we recently lost our 3 year starter to the 49er's. THANK YOU CHICAGO! We are grateful to have Olin Kreutz. We have tremendous respect for his abilities ... especially since his embedded Achilles bone spur has been remedied. I understand Olin's had the most productive, painfree off-season workouts since 2008. We also appreciate the fact that Olin knows your offense inside and out (not to mention your defense) which I'm sure will come in handy when the Bears come to the Superdome in September. Please feel free to jettison any other All- Pro players on your roster ... what about BRIAN URLACHER?

"The Bears packed up and bused back to their training camp at Olivet Nazarene University, prompting safety Chris Harris to tweet: "Can someone explain to me how a NAIA college practice field is better than Soldier Field #confused''

because it is run by the park district who are a bunch of tards. It is embarassing and they need to hire a real outfit to maintain the surface or move to field turf. if we moved to field turf Hester and Peppers would do things you never dreamed of.

it is unbelievable that the McCaskeys won't allow the Bears to have a professional grade surface for a professional football team.
Green Bay has natural grass and players agree it is a good field but best believe the fucking park district doesn't keep it up. The organization does it and does it well.

If the brass thought our team style suited the turf more than natural, then we would have turf. Many of the players disagree, but this has been thought out by the higher-ups to the best of their ability, which ain't sayin much.

Alright, just finished my first ever Fantasy Football Draft, and I think I did OK.

I got two guys out of prison (Vick and Plax), and some guy who got shanked in the gut by his wife and is borderline crazy (Marshall).

Other than that, it's all good.

Got the "Hold My Dick" Beast in Lynch, and BronKo reincarnated in Hillis, Megatron and James Jones (I puked a little in my mouth), and to round out everything Earl the Pearl Bennett (Martz better not be fucking lying when he said he needed more touches!)

Now that the New York Giants have stopped the agent for Osi Umenyiora(notes) from trying to find a trade for his client, the defensive end pretty much killed any possible deal by telling the team he needs knee surgery, according to the New York Daily News.

Umenyiora "refused to practice" Thursday, the paper reports, and a Giants spokesman said, "He says he has a sore knee." He also told the team that he may need surgery to fix a torn meniscus, the Daily News reports.

A team source tells the paper that the Giants don't plan to trade the 29-year-old two-time Pro Bowler or redo his contract. The Daily News reports that Umenyiora would like to be making $10 million annually.

Umenyiora missed the 2008 season due to surgery on his left knee to fix some torn cartilage.